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certain amount of money but only after people are paid back the damage from the oil spill. we got an update earlier this morning from bp about what they ve spent so far, $1.6 billion. if you look at how much money in the first quarter the company made every day, $66 million, multiply that by 56 days since the spill began, the profits to this company have probably been in the $3.5 billion range. so they are still making more money than the cost of the spill. but again, we don t know what the ultimate cost of this spill will be. also an update on the claims submitted. 51,000 submitted so far. payments made so far, 26,500 and $62 million worth, that includes payment so to some states and also to louisiana to try to figure out how to build some containment measures. so still a lot of people are criticizing bp saying not enough of these claims are being made. thad allen from the coast guard would like an independent third

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